My Triling System

48 [Bonus chapter]Chapter 48: Dan has a crush on you

“I can see that majority of you were able to learn the spiritual eyes summoning skill at the first attempt,” The weapon hall teacher, Luke said. “While the others are still lagging and would need more practice. Although that may not be needed if it’s detected that you can’t learn the spiritual eyes. So, I’ll be selecting one among those who thrived in learning the spiritual eyes skill.”

Kevin was staying at the back but he was surprised to see the homeroom teacher call out for him.

‘ Am I being called or he’s calling for someone else? Probably someone beside me.’ Kevin pointed at himself to see if he was the one and he saw that the teacher had truly called for him.

“What’s your name young Elf?” The teacher asked and Kevin replied to him.

“Elf Kevin, please come up front and stand at the podium so everyone could see you clearly,” Luke said. Embarrassingly, Kevin pushed himself up to the front.

Dan had a grimace on his face as he watched Kevin walk up to the front. He had succeeded in learning the spiritual eyes skill and his youngest brother Reed was also able to do the same thing. The only ones who failed to learn the skill among the five were Lexa and Zoe.

The two were a bit gloomy seeing their friends and family learn the skill while they weren’t able to. But Zoe was not as sad as Lexa. While the groups were separating themselves from those who didn’t succeed in learning the spiritual eyes skill, Lexa had seen Kevin walk to the right while she stayed on the left-hand side of the hall. She didn’t want to separate herself from him but now he has reached a rank above hers. If care is not taken, Kevin might leave her and get promoted to the next rank, the mage soldier rank. But Lexa will not allow that to happen.

‘I will learn this skill and stay by his side till the end.’ Lexa promised herself as she practiced the skill once again. Even though she lags in doing things like this, once she has the will and feels motivated to do something, she’ll surely do it. Ever since she was a kid, her father doesn’t force her to do things she doesn’t feel like doing. He already knew how she does her things. If it clicks in her mind to do something, no one could stop her from doing that thing and it will turn out to be a success.

Same as when she first practiced her ice magic. She had frequently seen her father get angry at her sister for learning healing Magic as her first magic. Magic that doesn’t help her in combat and self-defense. Her father was forced to have guards watch her sister while in the academy, twenty-four seven because of her weak and useless magic.

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Lexa had seen all this and had chosen not to annoy her father like her sister did, so she picked one of the strongest magic she could learn and learned ice magic within a short period. Her father was surprised when he saw her seven-year-old daughter learn ice magic within two weeks alone without any teacher. It was indeed astonishing to her mother and everyone who heard of the story.

She told her father that it was nothing hard, she just read the details of how to control the magic and since she was determined to learn, she found it so easy to manipulate. Ever since then, her father had loved and cherished her more than his first daughter, Lina. But he did his best not to show it so there won’t be a conflict between the two sisters.

Lexa’s ice magic became something his father was able to brag about in public to his friends whose children learned strong magic. And unlike Lina who was escorted by bodyguards throughout her high school, Lexa refused to have a bodyguard. She could easily fight and defend herself from any student that challenges her. She went to a public elementary school instead of a private one where rich families take their children and hid her true identity from everyone in the school including Dan and his siblings. She had learned the magic during that time and would freeze any of the kids that challenges or bullied her. She was well known as the ice beauty back then until her father made her attend the private elementary school by force.

“Finally” Lexa rejoiced as she got a hand of the skill. She successfully learned the spiritual eyes skill within a few minutes. But while in the middle of her rejoicing, she heard someone call out for Kevin.

“Kevin?” she turned her face towards the teacher at the front and saw Kevin standing on the raised platform made in a shape of a battle arena. What she noticed was that Kevin’s eyes were tied with a cloth so he won’t be using his eyes but his spiritual eyes.

“When did Kevin get to the front?” Lexa wasn’t able to follow all that was happening in the hall because she was so focused on learning the spiritual eyes skill.

“We need someone who would spar with Kevin. Any volunteer?” Luke asked and as if the students had been anticipating this, a few of them started walking forward, including Dan. They all wanted to spar with Kevin.

Reed and the others had their mouths open wide. They didn’t imagine he would be sparing with Kevin.

“What is Dan doing?” Lexa asked and Zoe who sat a few distances from her moved closer to her.

“Lexa, I don’t know what’s wrong with Dan. He has been acting aggressively toward Kevin lately. I think he’s angry seeing the two of you together. He has a crush on you and had been planning to ask you out for a while now, but since you’ve been hanging out with Kevin, he wasn’t able to see you. Please help him, you’re the only one who could help him at this moment. He wouldn’t pay attention to us anymore.”

“Dan?” Lexa replied.

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